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Ronald Raygun replied Mar 15, 2011Any errors in the experts or journal tab? Any attempts at a trade?
Generic Breakout Version 7 [TD]
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Ronald Raygun replied Mar 2, 2011You need to initially send the order with sl and tp set to 0 The modify the order with the SL and tp
Not executing when live
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Ronald Raygun replied Feb 20, 2011I'm not sure that's an entirely safe solution. If the price changes significantly, you would need to run RefreshRates() in order to calculate the new prices
Autodetect ECN Broker
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Ronald Raygun replied Feb 20, 2011It's interesting you ask that since you do say that you're "Trying to be your own boss" FX jobs are just that. Jobs. In the new market order, traders don't really make trading decisions, the portfolio manager does. Traders need to execute the ...
Traders! I need a FX Career, please help
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Ronald Raygun replied Feb 20, 2011I think I understand your question better. It's generally faster to send an order with the stoploss / takeprofit already added. The Ordermodify option is more risky as there's a chance the price could move too far causing the ordermodify to throw an ...
Autodetect ECN Broker
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Ronald Raygun replied Feb 20, 2011The original -1 branch is meant to catch the original OrderSend() error. On ECN Brokers, if an EA tries to place a trade with a stoploss / takeprofit, the function dies with no error. In that first branch, the EA checks to see if the order was ...
Autodetect ECN Broker
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Ronald Raygun replied Feb 19, 2011I designed this function to be used in lieu of using only the OrderSend() function. I use this so I don't have to rely on my end user to enable / disable the ECNBroker flag. Which errors were you thinking about? The minimum distances to ...
Autodetect ECN Broker
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Ronald Raygun replied Feb 17, 2011I'm pretty sure natural language is as difficult if not more difficult as understanding innate patterns in the forex market--sans news events.
IBM's Watson Algorithm
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Ronald Raygun replied Dec 27, 2010Why not start a fund? Find a trader who makes a lot of money using your numbers, hire that trader to manage however much money you can acquire and split the profits?
FOREX Market Reversal Levels
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Ronald Raygun replied Nov 28, 2010Ooh Another bug. I need to check the code that updates the repository. Thanks again for the update! And yes, I do use this database every day. But I store everything in a private database so I can query it at will.
Tick Database Version 2
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Ronald Raygun replied Nov 28, 2010Thanks for the update ben. I'm looking into it.
Tick Database Version 2
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Ronald Raygun replied Nov 9, 2010To those who are asking why you wouldn't simply trade for yourself consider the following: Would you rather keep 100% of 100,000 or 1% of 100,000,000? As for a career path, I suggest finding a prop trading firm that will help you get your series 7 ...
Trading job without degree, would I qualify?
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Ronald Raygun replied Nov 1, 2010I actually try to curve-fit my EAs. As a general rule of thumb, I optimize my EAs against the previous month or so, a relatively short period of time. I am betting on the assumption that the market will continue the overall macro trend for at least ...
Optimization, statistics, and avoidance of curve fitting
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Ronald Raygun replied Oct 30, 2010Let's say the spread is 0.9 pips per pair. For every 100,000, that's a $9 commission round trip. Let's further say the firm does something to the tune of 100M in average daily volume. Assuming there are 200 trading days in a year, that's 1.8M in ...
How profitable is the forex broker business model?
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Ronald Raygun replied Oct 16, 2010double LastOpen = iOpen(NULL,lookupTimeFrame,iOpen(NU LL,lookupTimeFrame,MODE_OPEN,z-x,x)); You are using a second iOpen as the shift value for the first iOpen.
iOPEN
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Ronald Raygun replied Oct 13, 2010Well if your database isn't constantly expanding, it doesn't really matter what schema you use. I would be more worried about getting the queries working first then focusing on optimizing the database.
best SQL schema for tick data